Creative upcycle and downcycle ideas
I’ve been searching for a unique and well crafted recycled Halloween costume, and I think I found it at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Along with a detailed tutorial of making a homemade bat costume, the author includes matching — and striking, I might add — bat ears. Finally, we cheapskates have a use for the broken umbrella that sits in our closets!
I don’t throw out even the tiniest scrap of fabric as I seem to be able to find tinier and tinier projects to use them to make fun things. Today’s fun scrap fabric project is pom poms. If you have some scrap fabric pop on over to the blog Sew What Alicia for the step by step tutorial on how to make scrap fabric pom poms.
You should totally enter this in ReadyMade’s MacGyver challenge for this month! It’s gotta be the best idea I’ve ever seen for upcycling an old umbrella! (See page 88 of issue #31; the submission deadline is November 30.)
Thanks for the heads-up Michele! I love the MacGyver contest. I’ll pass this suggestion along to the actual designer of this creative costume.
I just watched an episode of Project Runway Canada where the designers created cocktail dresses out of umbrellas (: This totally makes me want to try it!!
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